Computational Science Research Center
Date of the Event: March 4, 2011
TITLE: THE GENERAL CURVILINEAR ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL DATE: Friday, March 4th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Jose Castillo, Computational Science Research Center at SDSU ABSTRACT: The General Curvilinear Environmental Model is a high-resolution system composed of the General Curvilinear Coastal Ocean Model (GCCOM) and the General Curvilinear Atmospheric Model (GCAM). Both modules are […]
Date of the Event: February 25, 2011
TITLE: TALK 1 : UNIFIED CURVILINEAR OCEAN AND ATMOSPHERE MODEL (UCOAM) TALK 2 : USING THE DISTRIBUTED COUPLING TOOLKIT (DCT) TO COUPLE MODEL COMPONENTS OF GENERALIZED CURVILINEAR ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL DATE: Friday, February 25th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Speaker 1 : Mohammad Abouali, PhD Student, CSRC Speaker 2 : Dany De Cecchis, […]
Date of the Event: February 18, 2011
TITLE: NONLINEAR LASER WAVE-MIXING SPECRTOSCOPY FOR PARTS-PER-QUADRILLION-LEVEL DETECTION OF ISOTOPES AND CHEM/BIO AGENTS DATE: Friday, February 18th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: William Tong, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, william.tong@sdsu.edu, www.billtong.us ABSTRACT: Bill Tong has developed novel nonlinear laser methods for chemical analysis with zeptomole-level (10-21 mole) or sub-parts-per-quadrillion-level detection sensitivity. […]
Date of the Event: February 11, 2011
TITLE: ACCELERATING COMPUTATIONS IN VERY LARGE APPLICATIONS USING DATA FLOW BASED ACCELERATORS DATE: Friday, February 11th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Mike Flynn, Chairman, Maxeler Corp., www.maxeler.com ABSTRACT: For many high performance computing applications the alternative to the multicore rack is to use an accelerator assist to each multicore node. There are […]
Date of the Event: February 4, 2011
TITLE: GENETIC ROBUSTNESS BY MODULARITY AND REWIRING DATE: Friday, February 4th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Animesh Ray, Keck Graduate Institute ABSTRACT: How robust is the genome? On way to ask that same question is to ask how many other genes in the genome, if perturbed, can potentially suppress a given lethal […]
Date of the Event: January 28, 2011
TITLE: BEYOND GIS: SCALABLE SPATIAL CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE IN A HIGH-DEFINITION WORLD DATE: Friday, February 4th, 2011 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: John Helly, UCSD, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Scripps Institution of Oceanography ABSTRACT: Modern observing and modeling systems produce data at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolutions. Cyberinfrastructure to handle these challenging volumes of data […]
Date of the Event: December 3, 2010
TITLE: THE SECOND LAW SEEN FROM CLASSICAL MECHANICS DATE: Friday, December 3rd, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Peter Salamon, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The talk will survey modern views of the second law of thermodynamics and claim that it holds even if physicists have stopped believing […]
Date of the Event: November 19, 2010
TITLE: SPINTRONICS DATE: Friday, November 19th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Antonio Palacios, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Group, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: The 2007 Nobel prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg for their discovery of the Giant Magnetoresistance Effect (GMR). This […]
Date of the Event: November 12, 2010
TITLE: IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFICIENCY OF DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHODS FOR COMPRESSIBLE FLOWS DATE: Friday, November 12th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: David Kopriva, Professor of Mathematics, Florida State University ABSTRACT: We confront conventional wisdom and show that discontinuous Galerkin spectral element methods for inviscid and viscous compressible flows can not only […]
Date of the Event: November 5, 2010
TITLE: QUANTIFICATION OF ALEATORIC AND EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY IN COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS DATE: Friday, November 5th, 2010 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Angel Urbina, Validation and Uncertainty Department, Sandia National Laboratories ABSTRACT: For complex engineering systems, testing-based assessment is increasingly sought to be replaced by simulations using detailed computational models. This is […]